cured
SayKYUURD/kjʊɹd/UK/kjʊəd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of cure.
Antibiotics cured the infection within a week.
The salmon was cured overnight with salt and sugar.
Note
One spelling does two jobs: the plain past (the doctor cured her) and the participle that follows have or be (she has been cured; the fish was cured). The participle spans two very different families of meaning: restoring health or ending a disease, and preserving or processing a material, food above all by salting. So context, not form, tells a healed patient from a salted ham.
cured is a form of cure
cure, verb: To end a disease or condition, or to restore a person or animal to health. Full entry
- Spelling
- cure → cured: add -d
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